Andrew Johnson Quotes

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• If blacks were given the right to vote, that would place every splay-footed, bandy-shanked, hump-backed, thick-lipped, flat-nosed, woolly-headed, ebon-colored in the country upon an equality with the poor white man.

  Andrew Johnson

  Country, Men, White Man

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• If you always support the correct principles then you will never get the wrong results!

  Andrew Johnson

  Support, Principles, Results

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• I have lived among negroes, all my life, and I am for this Government with slavery under the Constitution as it is. I am for the Government of my fathers with negroes. I am for it without negroes. Before I would see this Government destroyed I would send every negro back to Africa, disintegrated and blotted out of space

  Andrew Johnson

  Father, Government, Space

  Speech in Indianapolis, Indiana, February 26, 1863.

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• When I die, I desire no better winding sheet than the Stars and Stripes, and no softer pillow than the Constitution of my country.

  Andrew Johnson

  Country, Stars, Patriotic

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• Washington, DC is 12 square miles bordered by reality.

  Andrew Johnson

  Reality, Squares, Washington Dc

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• The life of a republic lies certainly in the energy, virtue, and intelligence of its citizens.

  Andrew Johnson

  Lying, Democracy, Energy

  Andrew Johnson (1967). “The Papers of Andrew Johnson: September 1865-January 1866”, p.478, Univ. of Tennessee Press

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• The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people.

  Andrew Johnson

  Government, Goal, People

  "Andrew Johnson, Plebeian and Patriot". Book by Robert Watson Winston, 1928.

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• Honest conviction is my courage; the Constitution is my guide.

  Andrew Johnson

  Inspirational Life, Presidential, Honest

  Andrew Johnson (1967). “The Papers of Andrew Johnson: February-July 1866”, p.151, Univ. of Tennessee Press

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• I have been almost overwhelmed by the announcement of the sad event [Lincoln's assassination] which has so recently occurred. I feel incompetent to perform duties so important and responsible as those which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me.

  Andrew Johnson

  Important, Events, Overwhelmed

  Inaugural Address. Sunday Morning Chronicle, Washington, www.gutenberg.org. April 16, 1865.

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• Let us look forward to the time when we can take the flag of our country and nail it below the Cross, and there let it wave as it waved in the olden times, and let us gather around it and inscribed for our motto: 'Liberty and Union, one and inseparable, now and forever,' and exclaim, 'Christ first, our country next!'

  Andrew Johnson

  Country, Forever, Liberty

  Andrew Johnson (1862). “Expulsion of Mr. Bright: Speech of Hon. Andrew Johnson, of Tennessee, in the Senate of the United States, Friday, January 31, 1862”, p.16

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• Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as that instrument gives us. This broad principle limits all our functions and applies to all subjects.

  Andrew Johnson

  Government, Giving, Political

  Andrew Johnson, Paul H. Bergeron (1967). “The Papers of Andrew Johnson: February-August 1867”, p.86, Univ. of Tennessee Press

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• Let them impeach and be damned.

  Andrew Johnson

  Presidential

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• If I am to be shot at, I want no man to be in the way of the bullet.

  Andrew Johnson

  Men, Want, Bullets

  "Andrew Johnson, President of the United States: His Life and Speeches". Book by Lillian Foster, 1866.

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• It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word.

  Andrew Johnson

  Patriotic, Thinking, Stupidity

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• Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North.

  Andrew Johnson

  White, Racism, Black

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• I realized, there are people out there who can beat me, want to beat me. And unless I continue to innovate and evolve, I am going to learn a painful lesson from someone who has.

  Andrew Johnson

  People, Lessons, Want

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• Legislation can neither be wise nor just which seeks the welfare of a single interest at the expense and to the injury of many and varied interests.

  Andrew Johnson

  Wise, Presidential, Welfare

  Andrew Johnson (1967). “The Papers of Andrew Johnson: September 1868-April 1869”, p.471, Univ. of Tennessee Press

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• I never thought I would be impeached.

  Andrew Johnson

  Would Be

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• Duties have been mine; consequences are God's.

  Andrew Johnson

  Duty, Mines, Has Beens

  Andrew Johnson (1866). “Life and Times of A. Johnson ... Written from a national stand-point. By a National Man”, p.165

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• It is our sacred duty to transmit unimpaired to our posterity the blessings of liberty which were bequeathed to us by the founders of the Republic.

  Andrew Johnson

  Blessing, Liberty, Sacred

  Andrew Johnson (1967). “The Papers of Andrew Johnson: September 1868-April 1869”, p.288, Univ. of Tennessee Press

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• Whenever you hear a man prating about the Constitution, spot him as a traitor.

  Andrew Johnson

  Men, Constitution, Traitor

  "A Reveiw of the Political Conflict in America" by Alexander Harris, (p. 430), 1876.

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• There are some who lack confidence in the integrity and capacity of the people to govern themselves. To all who entertain such fears I will most respectfully say that I entertain none. If man is not capable, and is not to be trusted with the government of himself, is he to be trusted with the government of others? Who, then, will govern? The answer must be, Man - for we have no angels in the shape of men, as yet, who are willing to take charge of our political affairs.

  Andrew Johnson

  Integrity, Angel, Men

  Said in 1853. "Andrew Johnson, Plebeian and Patriot". Book by Robert Winston, 1928.

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• I feel incompetent to perform duties...which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me.

  Andrew Johnson

  Presidential, Duty, Feels

  Andrew Johnson's Inaugural Address, www.nytimes.com. April 17, 1865.

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• I have reached the summit of my ambition.

  Andrew Johnson

  Ambition, Summit, My Ambition

  Andrew Johnson, LeRoy P. Graf, Ralph W. Haskins, Paul H. Bergeron (1967). “The Papers of Andrew Johnson: 1858-1860”, p.159, Univ. of Tennessee Press

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• The sovereignty of the States is the language of the Confederacy and not the language of the Constitution. The latter contains the emphatic words. This Constitution and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof and all treaties made or which shall be made under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land and the judges in every State shall be bound thereby, anything in the constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding

  Andrew Johnson

  Law, Land, Judging

  Andrew Johnson (1967). “The Papers of Andrew Johnson: September 1865-January 1866”, p.469, Univ. of Tennessee Press

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